[73] Statistics of births, deaths, and marriages amongst the Parsis of Bombay, during the last ten years, in the Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay, ii., November 1, pp. 55-65. [74] We refer to the Parsee Prakash, for all those interesting details, those of our readers who can read and understand Gujerati. [75] "If I have not yet replied to your letter of the 19th November," he writes, "it is because I desired to make special researches concerning the strange rumour which has been spread by the Syed on the subject of a tribe of Parsis established at Khoten, remaining faithful to the Zoroastrian customs, and still governed by its own kings. I can tell you that it is a legend devoid of foundation, and that Major Rawlinson, so learned in these matters, partakes of my view. I suppose that the Syed, seeing the prosperous condition of his co-religionists in Bombay, imagined that in flattering your vanity he would act on your purse. Besides, the country of Khoten is not the terra incognita which he has depicted. I have been in touch with the people who have sojourned there; it is a dependency of China, inhabited by Mussulman subjects of the Empire: the only Chinese who are there form part of the garrison. According to all that has been said to me of Khoten and the adjacent countries, the only difficulty I have had is to define who are the Christian traders who frequent those markets. I think that they are Russians or Nestorian Christians." [76] See Cabool: being a Narrative of a Journey to, and Residence in that City in the years 1836-7-8. By the late Lieut.-Col. Sir Alexander Burnes. London, 1842. [77] Vivien Saint Martin, New Dictionary of Universal Geography, vol. iii. p. 9. Paris, 1887. [78] "Returned herself as living on the wages of shame" (see Dosabhai Framji Karaka, Hist. of Parsis, vol. i. chap. iii. p. 99). [79] The Parsis have never followed certain occupations, as those of a day labourer, palanquin bearer, barber, bleacher, &c., &c.